Alleged Drunk Driver Kills 5 in NY Crash

July 20, 2011

An alleged drunk driver killed five Amish farmers and injured 10 other people in a three-vehicle crash near New York's Finger Lakes region.

According to sheriffs' deputies, 42-year-old Steven Eldridge tried to pass a tractor near Benton, N.Y., when his car collided head-on with a van containing 13 Amish farmers on an excursion to learn about new farming technologies.

Police charged Eldridge with driving while intoxicated and five counts of criminally negligent homicide.